Breaking news: Yet another #open-source project thinks #forking #X11 is a great idea! Now, devs can enjoy twice the #chaos and half the #productivity. 
Expect #GitHub to be filled with yet more commits that no one understands or cares about. 
https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/commits/xlibre/prepare/ #HackerNews #ngated
@peterzaitsev of
@percona and OpenUK CEO, @AmandaBrock discuss licence shift and forking in open source at State of Open Con. https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/All-change-Weighing-up-the-options-for-enterprises-as-open-source-licences-evolve #stateofopencon #soocon25 #forking
@nixCraft The problem is that @mozillaofficial refuses to acknowledge that #Firefox and it's promise of #privacy and #openness is their "core #product" and that many people, including myself, will #divest and #boycott any #donations to them until they apologize and undo the harm they pushed with "#AI" / #LLM - based #Enshittification.
In fact, I hope #Firefox gets handed over to @torproject and #TorBrowser becomes the new #Upstream!
CEO Amanda Brock talks about how the powerful response to licence shifts away from open source seen in the Valkey fork, and highlights the error of relying on open source as a business model in the Computing article ‘Not a business model’: How companies misunderstand open source. https://openuk.uk/press-posts/computing-230924/
#openuk #opensource #forking
Interesting take on the #forking of #OpenSource software.
Is it the one changing the name of the software or the one changing the license that is making the #fork?
"Terraform By Hashicorp Forked To OpenTF"
https://m.slashdot.org/story/418538
What do you think?
@esther I've to kinda agree...
Espechally since a lot of FLOSS projects are not good at #forking where it's necessary (#VScode being a good example, but usually you get shitty bs forks noone asked for like #Devuan)...
In the end, it's vital to avoid toxic #LockIns and use #MultiVendor / #MultiProvider solutions wherever possible.
In fact, I don't mind paying for #CCSS if it's a good product that just works for me.
